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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey all!
> 
> One of the tasks from the last ODS was to implement a single global
> dependency list. Turns out the more you think about it, the more
> important it is... because of the way we use devstack as part of the
> gate, we actually _currently_ have a de facto global dependency list,
> it's just not declared anywhere. (oops)
> 
> Anyway - the original thought was to put the depends in
> openstack-common. We'd use update.py to copy the depends in to the
> project, so that projects could align on their own timeframe.
> Additionally, we'd make the copy only copy in the versions from
> openstack-common for package that were already listed in the target
> project, so that we wouldn't add django to python-swiftclient, for instance.
> 
> The mechanics of that all work and are ready - but then bcwaldon pointed
> out that it didn't make a ton of sense for them to go in
> openstack-common, since that has its own lifecycle and is a place for
> common code to go - not just a catch all place.
> 
> To that end, I took the code we had written for the update logic and put
> it, along with the depends lists, into its own repo. I think we're ready
> to start actually moving forward with it - but we've run up against the
> hardest problem we every have:
> 
> naming
> 
> openstack-depends already got vetoed on IRC because it makes people
> think of adult diapers. I'm proposing openstack-requires, since the
> files we're talking about are actually python requirements files.
> 
> Any objections?

+0 on the name

As an alternative, how about combining the requirements file with the other packaging related stuff from openstack-common and calling the result openstack-packaging? 

Doug